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The US Aerospace and Defense industries are in the midst of a transformation to a digital paradigm. As an example, the US Department of Defense (USDOD) released a strategy for implementation of digital engineering (DE) in 2018. The strategy defined key focus areas of DE, one of which was focused on culture and workforce development. To meet the need of development of the USDOD workforce, we have created the Simulation Training Environment for Digital Engineering (STEDE). A subset of STEDE is focused on digital acquisition artifacts, which are expected contribute to acceleration of the acquisition process. Rather than existing as static, largely textual documents, the acquisition artifacts are digitally transformed to become a dynamic set of data and models in a digital ecosystem, interconnected through a digital continuum. The Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), to which our research group belongs, has a number of projects that advance knowledge of digital acquisition artifacts, such as the digital test and evaluation master plan (d-TEMP), which is expected to complement the pursuit of educational research presented in this article. However, we have specifically selected to focus this article on the digital systems engineering plan (d-SEP). While we do not share the curriculum in this article, we use this article to provide insights that we have uncovered during our pursuit of the basis for DE education.
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The Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) is a federally funded University Affiliated Research Center managed by Stevens Institute of Technology. This material is based upon work supported, in whole or in part, by the U.S. Department of Defense through the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (ASD(R&E)) under Contract [HQ0034-19-D-0003, TO#0179]. Any views, opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Department of Defense nor ASD(R&E).
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Wach, P. et al. (2024). Advancing Education on Digital Artifacts. In: Verma, D., Madni, A.M., Hoffenson, S., Xiao, L. (eds) The Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Systems Engineering Research. CSER 2023. Conference on Systems Engineering Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49179-5_8
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